Re: [g-a-devel] About the signal "text-update"

[Alexander Surkov <surkov alexander gmail com>]

Hi. The idea of text_update event is a substitution of
text_removed/text_inserted events pair. It's about less events and
describes better what the user does. So if the user selected the text
and typed new text then it's a case for text_update event. We never
implemented it in Firefox because AT didn't implemented it, we can't
proceed it without AT since it's not backward compatible approach.
Thank you.
Alex.

On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 1:58 PM, Piñeiro <apinheiro igalia com> wrote:
> Hi everybody,
>
> I'm right now doing some cleaning at the documentation of atk (as a
> result of doing some long-waited deprecations). As you can recall from
> the atk-hackfest of 2012 [1], one of the conclusions was adding some new
> signals [2] in order to deprecate AtkText::text-changed [3].  And the
> signals text-insert, text-remove and text-update was added with that bug
> [2].
>
> But, the patch didn't add any documentation at all for those methods.
> And although I was able to infer the meaning (and more important, the
> parameters) of 'text-insert' and 'text-remove" from Fernando
> announcement [4] and the code itself (at-spi2-atk+firefox), I was not
> able to do the same for 'text-update'. Additionaly, and as I said some
> years ago [5], I'm not sure about needing that method.
>
> And, in fact, right now, that signal is not used at all on at-spi2-atk,
> and is not emitted by firefox (that was the first application
> implementing the other two methods).
>
> So, I'm tempted to just mark that signal as deprecated (without
> replacement), unless someone remember the meaning of that signal, or why
> it was created.
>
> BR
>
> [1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Accessibility/Hackfests/ATK2012
> [2] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=638377
> [3] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=653291
> [4]
> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-accessibility-devel/2010-December/msg00007.html
> [5]
> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-accessibility-devel/2010-December/msg00008.html
>
> --
> Alejandro Piņeiro Iglesias